Chocolate Makes My Clothes Shrink!!!!

Hello Blog World,

Ok so I am back from Melbourne, I had a fantastic time!  Visited old friends and family, drank copious amounts of wine and ate excessively well!!! (hence no lifestyle change post this week, I will combine last week and this week next Monday)

So today I have an older project for you while I sort through my holiday photo’s and plan some new crafts (I am thinking of making a wreath this weekend, there is also a new watercolour and even a work in progress on a new drawing!)

I mentioned in my last post that I had not long ago decided to learn how to cross stitch properly.



I started with this little fellow, and was very happy with how he turned out that I went out a bought a kit at a craft fair. I saw this lovely lady and this saying and knew I had to have it!!!  It describes me all over!



Again, I was very pleased with how she turned out, and she now resides in a frame on my book case! (sorry about the photo, so need a new camera!!!!)

Now I am off to sort through my holiday snaps (I did use a much better camera).  Until then happy crafting.

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First Cross–Stitch

Hello Blog World,

Firstly Happy December, Christmas is right around the corner. Is anyone else panicking???




Well I am still in Melbourne having a blast, been visiting old friends, having lovely dinners and lots of wine.

So as promised there are no new projects as I am away but when I was a younger girl in my teens, my mother taught me how to do long stitch. I always enjoyed it but also loved the more intricate details that cross stitch provides, unfortunately she never got to teach me that before passing but I have not let it stop me. Earlier this year after seeing what my sister in law can do with some floss and a needle she showed me the basics of cross stitch.

So I already had heaps of floss from my other crafts, and she even had some aida cloth I could use, and instead of going out and buying a pattern for my first attempt, she has a program (I can’t remember what it’s called sorry, but there are heaps of different ones out there) where you can import a photo or any picture and it will convert it into a cross stitch pattern and even list what DMC and/or ANCHOR Threads  you need to use.

So off I went and played, didn’t buy anymore thread so just improvised with what I had if I didn’t have the correct DMC Colour and WAH LAH, my first ever cross stitch completed!!

This is partially done, you should be able to tell what it is.

So it is a reindeer in case some of you cannot tell, I do not know what I am going to do with it, I may clean it up a bit and pop it on a card? I think it is good enough (the photo doesn’t show this as my camera was broken when I took it).

I really enjoyed doing this and have completed another small cross stitch since (which I may show before I go home) and I am also currently working on a massive one which I am about half way through but have had to put aside as life and other crafts have come first for the last few months.

Now I am off to to an Art Society my friend Jenny is involved in, gonna get my groove back and try and do some sketching and/or painting, Until then happy crafting

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